AboutSyed Rizwan Muhammad Rizvi Expertise I can answers questions regarding web based and desktop based programming in VB.Net. Which can include SOAP, XML, Custom Controls, COM Interoperability etc.
Experience Have been working in this specific area for last 2 years previously I was a VB 6 Developer with experties in other languages as well. Total 10 years of programming experience.
I have an area of a website which users must login to access. I wish to display a client image for each client but not allow other users or clients to view other client images. This means that simply having a folder in the root called "clientimages" is not an option as other users would be able to access the contents.
How do I display an image on an ASP.Net page but keep the URL of the image hidden?
I was thinking of file streams but I can't get them to work in the way that I require.
Storing the images within the database is not an option as the database is a legacy one.
The images themselves are all of type GIF and they are called 1.gif, 2.gif, 3.gif etc. (based on user ids). The files are on the same server but not in the root folder.
I can just about get a writefile command to output the image but I can't get other content to display aswell.
Any help you can give would be very much appreciated.
Regards,
Martin Smith.
Answer HTTP response supports multiple mime-types within a response.
You can change the response header while writing the file to image/gif and use response.binarywrite or equivalent method to write the image and then you can change the MIME type back to text/html or whatever to display other results. I hope that will help.
